Born under a dark cloud? January 22
Three songs into our set at Arlene’s Grocery on Saturday night, things felt good. We fortunately had a so-so practice on the Thursday, and as we’ve mentioned here before that usually means we’ll have a good show. During our first three songs, that pattern appeared to be holding true still and we seemed to be on our game as much as ever.
But then a more recent trend held sway and the bass amp at Arlene’s stopped working. This time the equipment wasn’t actually ours, but I’m pretty sure our presence had something to do with its malfunction. After taking like 5 minutes to fix it, we got through one more song, then took another 5 minutes to fix it again. Once we got going again, we rocked pretty hard and well for the rest of the set.
On a positive note, when we did get to play we played real well and had a lot of fun. Charles played especially well, though I’d have liked to seen him put on his new dance moves. And 1 am is an awesome time to hold a show in NY it turns out. Everyone’s drunk and really into it, plus more people come become 1 am in NYC is like the equivalent of 11 pm in DC.